Best Porcupine Tree album
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Topic: Best Porcupine Tree album
Posted By: Meng
Subject: Best Porcupine Tree album
Date Posted: July 04 2005 at 15:25
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As someone who was disappointed with their latest "Deadwing" - not sorry I
bought it, just disappointed and hoping it will grow on me - it got me wondering what this site's visitors think is their best. Signify for me. |
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: July 04 2005 at 15:31
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There are two magnificent DVD Audio versions of Deadwing available, I created threads about them a while ago. Actually, I like Deadwing very much ... maybe it's because I'm very much into prog METAL. I voted for Lightbulb Sun ... In Absentia is even a little better, but Lightbulb Sun is better balanced and offers a good mix of the "old" and "new" Porcupine Tree. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Meng wrote:Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: July 04 2005 at 15:42
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I voted for Signify.But right now I am really digging In Absentia and Deadwing,I like the heavier sound on those albums. -------------  |
Posted By: Petra
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 08:52
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I find its almost impossible to chose a favourite, depending what mood i'm in. I love Tarquins Seaweed Farm it's very experimental and pychedelic with a final track 'The Cross' that sounds like a 60's Floyd. But for personal reasons the most played album of theirs for me is Stupid Dream i adore EVERY track. ------------- Don't hate me I'm not special like you |
Posted By: lynton samuel
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 10:23
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Can't decide between Stupid Dream and The Sky Moves Sideways. Both are excellent!!
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 13:41
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In Abstenia is brilliant, definitely one of the best Progressive
Metal bands ever made. 
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Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 16:28
| Difficult to decide whether I should vote on this as I haven't yet listened to Lightbulb Sun and Stupid Dream. I'll come back later on this one, though In Absentia and Deadwing are my top two so far. |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 16:37
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The first vote for Coma Divine is coming from me!
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Posted By: CRIMSONFROST
Date Posted: July 19 2005 at 16:09
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WITHOUT ANY HESITATION STUPID DREAM EVERY SINGLE TRACK IS A GEM CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY LIGHTBULB SUN THE WORST? YELLOW HEDGEROW IF I HAD TO PICK ANYTHING ------------- Scott c Wills |
Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: July 19 2005 at 17:08
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I was honestly surprised to find myself voting for Lightbulb Sun, as I
love both In Absentia and Deadwing. Lightbulb Sun was my introduction
to PT, and it's still my favorite as of yet.
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Posted By: Humanizzimo
Date Posted: July 19 2005 at 17:29
I only know In Absentia...so i think you guess my vote 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 19 2005 at 17:56
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For me Stupid Dream. I think Pure Narcotic is one of the best tracks that were made in the last decade. And there are more great tracks on it, and the atmosphere is breathtaking. But I have to be honest: I didn't hear their widely acclaimed In Absentia yet. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: July 19 2005 at 18:11
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In Absentia shades it for me,from Deadwing,Lightbulb Sun then Signify. I never really took to Stupid Dream but that's only realative.They always make very good albums. |
Posted By: Miaugion
Date Posted: July 19 2005 at 20:01
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Favourites:
01) In Absentia 02) Stupid Dream 03) The Sky Moves Sideways ------------- You house proud town mouse ha ha, charade you are |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: July 19 2005 at 21:27
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I choose "Recordings"... I really don't know why, but this album left a significant print in my life (excuse my english).... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: Hangedman
Date Posted: July 20 2005 at 01:43
| Im usually pretty determined not to participate in "best" of anything threads, but this stirred my interest. Mostly because it would be very difficult to pick out a "best" album for PT in any respect, there are so many style changes throughout that a lot of albums become incomparable even(like up the downstair to deadwing, radically different). So for a best id really have to pick one from each era, but even then im not ready to decide which one is better than the other (in the case of in absentia vs. deadwing, in absentia has better songs (except the deadwing title track, perhaps PT best song) but it does not hold together as an album, it feels like a collection of songs. Hard choice). I can however, list two favourites. My two favourite albums by PT are signify and up the downstair. I voted for up the downstair because this brilliant almost trance album has no love so far. |
Posted By: barbs
Date Posted: July 20 2005 at 07:41
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The difficulty is that each album has a uniqueness that defines a particular development of Porcupine Tree. I think it is hard to vote on best of polls because the output of a band 3, 5 and 10 years ago should, by defining it prog, be changing and taking risks so IMO, what you hear in 1996 cannot be measured along what you hear in 2005. With this band anyway, I just cannot separate the albums I like. PT have been consistently putting out quality music since their inception and my fav albums are Sky Moves Sideways, Stupid Dream, Lightbulb Sun, In Absentia and Deadwing. I would like to get Recordings as my next PT purchase. ------------- Eternity |
Posted By: felixxx
Date Posted: July 20 2005 at 09:35
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I voted for Signify but also like very much The sky moves sideways! |
Posted By: geezer
Date Posted: July 20 2005 at 10:25
| I didn't vote because I haven't heard all their albums. The ones that I have heard: The Sky Moves Sideways, Signify, Stupid Dream, Lightbulb Sun. The Sky Moves Sideways is easily the best one of these. The rest is awful Oasis-like British pop! |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: July 20 2005 at 10:32
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Then my recommendation for you would be to skip In Absentia and Deadwing, and buy the Up The Downstair/Staircase Infinities re-release instead. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Borealis
Date Posted: July 20 2005 at 18:16
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They change a lot, so it's hard to compare their albums. The Sky Move Sideways atmosphear is great, Stupid Dream weird joyness of the album sound very good, but I guess my is gonna go to In Absentia, as it's the first prog album I bought. ------------- Vive le Québec libre!... |